i was so proud to hear president obama talk about the need to address climate change. he reminded us that you can believe in climate change or you can disbelief in climb change but the -- climate change but the fact is our storms are harder, our -- the drier weather we're seeing is causing forest fires and we are seeing can as itify -- catastrophes associated with climate change, we're seeing the consequences of it. so if we ignore the cause, we cannot ignore the consequence. i was so proud to hear him say. that he also spoke up boldly for equality, human rights, civil rights for all americans. i remember he said, and you may recall, too, mr. speaker, he said, he said, we will never forget, you know, stonewall, cynical falls and selma. these are three iconic moments in civil rights history when he talked about the women's right movement, gay rights movement and african-american movements for civilritis. but they ale added up to one thing which is that an american is an american is an american, doesn't matter what your color is, what your sex is, who you love and want t